- Susan’s not listening. Mousey is more interesting than carrots …
- Freddie and Lily back home, Phoebe’s about to leave
- “Don’t bother arguing, she’ll cut your feet off”
- Two fat men
- Tom’s trying to take dirty pictures of Susan
- “I’d have rather have got a new hard hat”
- Elizabeth pep talks Freddie
- “Borchester’s very own plague farm”
Susan’s not listening. Mousey is more interesting than carrots …
Pat has Susan out lifting carrots. There’s not enough work in the dairy.
Susan says she glad to, but, while Pat is trying to explain what to do, Susan just rambles on. Like she used to do with Clarrie.
[Susan] “The school gently discouraged her … so off she want this morning, had a little handover at the gate … do you know what it reminded me of? One of them Jamie Oliver programmes, the mums pushing beef burgers through the fence, though this was a toy mouse …”
(she’s talking about Jennifer wanting to do a mercy dash with Mousey, Ruairi’s favourite teddy, that he’d left behind)
Poor Pat. As is she has the time or inclination to have to repeat instructions about carrots.
Freddie and Lily back home, Phoebe’s about to leave
Freddie and Lily saw a basking shark while they were in Cornwall.
They had a grand time indeed, so says Elizabeth.
Roy is talking about Phoebe getting ready to leave. How she doesn’t want to leave anything, and would
[Roy] “take her own bed if she could”
So Phoebe’s off to South Africa, and Freddie and Lily are about to go to their (posh) secondary school.
Both Roy and Elizabeth are feeling that their kids are growing up far too soon, too fast.
“Don’t bother arguing, she’ll cut your feet off”
So says Freddie!
He’s only talking about Elizabeth refusing him beyond allowed to stay home (to work with the birds of prey) rather than going shopping for school. And if he doesn’t go shopping, Elizabeth would need to cut his feet off to get him shoes.
Two fat men
Are shouting at each other outside the conference room at Lower Loxley (according to Lily).
Seems the bloke from Industrial Adhesives stolen the Engineers Battenberg Fingers …
S’aright though. Roy sorted it.
Tom’s trying to take dirty pictures of Susan
Which Susan is lost decidedly not amused about.
It’s for the website – to show everyone mucking in.
Hence Tom, taking pictures of Susan, while she’s mucking lifting carrots.
“I’d have rather have got a new hard hat”
Reckons Freddie.
He doesn’t want to be a member of the Village People (well, not yet – as far as we know), he just wanted a helmet for riding.
Elizabeth pep talks Freddie
Freddie doesn’t want to start at the Cathedral School.
[Freddie] “I don’t like thinking about it … suppose everyone else is like Lily, mega brainy, sucks up to the teachers … and they won't like me. I’m not a super boffin”
[Elizabeth] “School isn’t a competition with your sister or anyone else … the main reason for going is to bring out your special talents ... I’m not expecting you to be someone else, just the best possible Freddie Pargetter you can be”
Aw. Bless.
Elizabeth knows Freddie isn’t the brains of Borchester, but he does indeed have more to offer.
“Borchester’s very own plague farm”
Tom is trying to convince Pat that an article in Borchester Life would be a good idea.
Pat loathes the press.
And Tom has to admit that Ros (Brenda’s mate) wants an angle. She does want to do a feature on the Wetlands, but also needs Bridge Farm to talk about their recent “tough time”.
E. Coli, it seems, would only be a starting point of the article.
Pat is horrified. Tom is naive.
[Pat] “ No … and that’s flat … it makes me so sick, after all the hard work we’ve put in farming the right way for years now everyone just sees us as Borchester's very own plague farm”
So, yet again a negative to one of Brenda’s bright ideas.
Figures.
She’s not bright at the best of times.
BUT question is – what will work for Bridge Farm?
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